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Sunday, February 26, 2023 –Government of William Ruto has reportedly put in place plans to paralyse Raila Odinga’s activities across the continent and over.
In a detailed Sunday February 26 report by the Nation.Africa, the latest escalation of hostility comes in a week when diplomatic sources leaked that Dr Ruto was behind the termination of the Azimio leader’s role at the African Union AU. This being just a tip in the lcebag of what could be awaiting Raila, ahead.
It’s simply part of the larger and clever scheme by the president to ‘politically contain’ the former premier who has previously staged mass protests that seem to interfere with economic activities around the country.
Ruto thinks Raila is applying the demonstration tactics as his usual means of forcing sitting governments into power-sharing negotiations, ceding ground to policy and legal reforms, as well as creating room for negotiated political solutions like the 2013 grand coalition and 2018 handshake deals.
In his Kakamega rally yesterday Saturday February 25, a charged up Odinga declared that the Ruto’s administration has only 11 days remaining to make corrections as per his demands which include opening electoral servers for the truth to be known.
But a lawmaker allied to Dr Ruto has said that the president has put in place a robust plan – both diplomatic and constitutional – to deal with Mr Odinga.
The government wants to paint Raila as a dangerous rebel who is out to cause civil unrest through risky ways of mobilizing and arming jobless youth to fight the State.
To that end, soon, Raila will be denied the privileges he enjoys both locally and internationally by virtue of his former office, among them access to VIP lounges at airports as well as special security.
Government sees Mr Odinga’s pronouncements of seeking to reclaim his “stolen victory” as not only dangerous but also reckless and which must be controlled by all means possible.
“Does he want to overthrow the legally elected government and proceed to instal himself? We are having a conversation about this even with Uhuru (Kenyatta); if he continues undermining the current regime, we will ask that he be withdrawn from his regional peace mission,” a Kenya Kwanza lawmaker argued.
Nelson Koech, Defence and Foreign Relations Committee chairman, said Mr Odinga’s international recognition now stands to suffer a big blow if he continues with his political theatrics against Dr Ruto’s administration.
He holds the views that the international community has a lot of interests in the country and would not hesitate to isolate him from the rest.
